Bring in several photographs of yourself and your family when you were younger, taken at places and events you remember fondly. Using "Ode to Family Photographs" as a model, writ a list poem based on these photos. You list poem doesn't have to be humorous like Soto's. You might want to try more of a "documentary" list poem.

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Patterns/ Repetitions in "Ode to Family Photographs"

Read the poem again and see if you notice any patterns, such as words and phrases that are repeated throughout the poem. Patterns need not occur in every line.

What words begin many of the first twelve lines?

Many of the first twelve lines follow this patterns:This is (noun) (modifier/description/ action). For example, This is the pond in the first line. Write out the lines and parts of lines in the poem that follow this pattern: